HNR Issue 37 (August 2006)
Duchess of Fifth Avenue
In 1885, during a rough crossing from Ireland to the United States, Lana Dunleavy made a promise to her…
Lady Anne’s Dangerous Man
The irresistibly beautiful Lady Anne Gascoigne is anxious to marry the charming, powerful Earl of Waverby and at last…
La Salle
La Salle is an epistolary novel that presents a selective view of the explorations by the 17th century French…
The Temple Dancer
In the mid-17th century Portuguese colony of Goa, beautiful, sheltered Lucinda Dasana is heir to the family fortune. But…
Lovers and Enemies
Caroline Saunders always expected to marry Harry Mortimer, the ne’er-do-well son of her parents’ closest friends. But when dissent…
The Women’s War
Less well known than The Three Musketeers or The Count of Monte Cristo, The Women’s War has all Dumas’ hallmarks.…
The Last Boleyn
. (Prev. pub. as Passion’s Reign, Kensington, 1983) Mary Boleyn, Anne’s long-eclipsed sister, has lately had her own surge of…
The Last Queen
This is the story of Juana “the Mad” of Castile, daughter to Isabel and Fernando and sister to Catherine of…
Plain Jane: A Novel of Jane Seymour
Young Jane Seymour is stunned when she overhears her parents discussing her future: as they consider Jane too plain to…
In the Company of the Courtesan
The Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant’s first historical novel, is one of my all-time favorite books. Dunant writes with…
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